The Medical Missionary Outlook in Kansas
By David Paulson
On account of the excessive rainfall, the Kansas camp meeting was not so largely attended as usual. Mrs. Paulson gave the sisters instruction on health and medical missionary work and how to make the most of their opportunities for neighborhood gospel work. Our Kansas brethren are unusually alive to the importance of medical missionary work and of representing true reform in their lives. One of the evening sessions was an earnest consecration meeting for a deeper religious experience in the home, and for the beginning of a broader work for God in each neighborhood. The latter part of the meeting was almost entirely broken up by the constant rainfall. At the close of the meeting, we visited Topeka, to assist in the enlargement of the medical missionary work in that place. I had the opportunity of speaking to an intelligent audience of appreciative men at the Young Men's Christian Association on Sunday afternoon, and to the regular monthly meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, at the First M. E. Church, on the following day, and arrangements were made for a meeting with the commercial club in the near future in the interests of the medical missionary work. Last winter Brother Kirk opened up treatment rooms in the basement of one of the city hotels, and in these humble quarters he and his wife have treated some of the leading people of the city, and a good impression has been made. It is now planned to open up a hygienic restaurant and well-equipped treatment rooms in suitable quarters. Brother McReynolds and the other members of the conference committee are earnestly endeavoring to promote these missionary enterprises. A hygienic café can be made a great missionary opportunity if the workers in it are consecrated missionaries. We know of no enterprise that can be made so productive of genuine results if the management and all connected therewith are soul savers as well as active business people. The same is true of properly conducted treatment rooms. The Lord wonderfully opened the way for this work in Wichita some months ago, and we do not doubt that equally marked providences will be seen as this work is undertaken in Topeka. Although the time has not come to have a treatment room and health restaurant in each community, yet it is time for every Seventh-day Adventist's home to be an exponent of the principles that create these institutions. DAVID PAULSON.